Sentences with phrase «total nuclear power generation»

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Nuclear power made up only 2 % of total electricity generation in 2010.

To be viable solar generation plus transmission plus storage would have to provide reliable power on demand, 24/367 and the total costs would have to be cheaper than fossil fuels and nuclear.

Officials want nuclear power to account for 20 percent of Japan's total electricity generation by 2030.

As of 2012, nuclear accounted for 26 percent of the total generating capacity, according to energy ministry data, though it typically accounts for about a third of power generation, while only making up about 3 - 4 percent of energy costs.

Canadian electricity generation in 2000 totaled 567.1 billion kilowatt hours (bkwh), of which 60 % was hydropower, 26 % was conventional thermal power (oil, gas, and coal), 12 % was nuclear generation, and 1 % was derived from other renewable sources.

Global nuclear electricity generation (blue area, left axis) and nuclear's share of total world power generation (red bars, right axis).

To both achieve emissions reduction goals and fully displace nuclear power, renewable energy would need to scale up from 17 % of the country's power supply today to a full 57 % of total electricity generation in just nine years» time.